Early proponents of
concrete art such as Max Bill, Judith Lauand and Lucio Fontana were working during a period of great technological achievements which opened a broad perspective to objective thinking and modernist ideas.
Not exact matches
The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the
concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication,
such as language, music,
art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.
Less obvious, but nevertheless crucial, are the paralysis of architecture, the sterility of visual
art, and the near absence of any form of creative expression of newer
concrete forms,
such as motion picture.
It is an
art form that is created in nature, using natural materials
such as (soil, rock, trees, branches, leaves and water) with introduced materials (
concrete, metal or asphalt).
Yet pioneers of
concrete art in Brazil,
such as Lygia Clark and Waldemar Cordeiro, are still little known in this country and their presence in the Whitechapel show adds to its interest.
In the exhibition, Leibowitz offered an assortment of brass belt buckles engraved to commemorate imaginary
art - meets - regular - life events
such as the «New England
Concrete Poets Picnic, New Canaan, 1981,» or the «Forty - Fourth Fluxus Ice Cream Cone Lick - Off, Detroit MI, July 4th, 1976.»
Kasper Pincis studied at Camberwell College of
Art, Goldsmiths, and the Royal Academy Schools, and his work has been shown nationally and internationally, being acquired by collections
such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Sackner Archive of
Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami, Florida).
During his career, he was an active member of several
art movements, such as Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, and Maximali
art movements,
such as
Concrete art, Op Art, Fluxus, and Maximali
art, Op
Art, Fluxus, and Maximali
Art, Fluxus, and Maximalism.
Concrete Art has since been associated with other schools of abstraction that spurned expression or gesture,
such as the Bauhaus and Constructivism.
He saw himself as a pioneer of
Concrete Art, a movement that was strongly supported by architects
such as Le Corbusier and artists
such as Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, Piet Mondrian and Max Bill.
Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973 — 1976), four hollow
concrete cylinders situated in Utah's Great Basin desert, has been acquired by the Dia
Art Foundation — its first
such work by a woman.
The Brazilian
art history is well documented, especially the Brazilian modernism,
such as
Concrete, Neoconcrete and Tropicália movement, which developed independently but also in deep dialogue with modernist tendencies in Europe and North America.
Traditional
art forms
such as photography and painting now regularly commingle, often seamlessly, with plastic,
concrete, textile, veneer, rubber, and other household and industrial materials.
Asher writes: «DeFeo's metaphysical but
concrete art functions in much the same way: the act of mirroring, or flipping images over and around, of changing black to white, of cutting through the surface of something, of changing liquid to solid, of waking and sleeping, of returning a different person to the place where you began your journey:
such transformations are the very sensibilities of DeFeo's
art, not one of mere sentences but one of propositions, abstract, as direct as they are elusive, subtle, alive to indispensable distinctions.»
Jäger's concepts have developed in dialogue with other
art disciplines, such as the Generative Music of the 1960s, and Concrete Art as defined by Theo van Doesburg as early as 19
art disciplines,
such as the Generative Music of the 1960s, and
Concrete Art as defined by Theo van Doesburg as early as 19
Art as defined by Theo van Doesburg as early as 1930.
While at MoMA PS1 and Clocktower, Mount worked with international scope of curators, artists, and institutions, and on seminal exhibitions
such as the first Greater New York in 2000; the retrospective of painter John Wesley, covering his entire career from 1961 - 2000; Around 1984: A Look at
Art in the Eighties, Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman; Body Works: Bruce Nauman, Valie Export, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Jonas, and Louis Bourgouis; Sol LeWitt:
Concrete Block; Min Tanaka presents Subject: Heuristic Ecdysis, Santiago Sierra, Person remunerated for a period of 360 consecutive hours, 2000, among others.
Throughout that career Bogart has been linked to
such diverse groups and movements as Abstract Expressionism, Tachism / l»
art informele, and Art Concre
art informele, and
Art Concre
Art Concrete.
For assistance in the area of the contemporary avant - garde, Lichtenhan consulted the archivist and later director of the Kunstmuseum Georg Schmidt, resulting in exhibitions
such as Konstruktivisten (Constructivists, 1937), Neue Kunst in der Schweiz (New
Art in Switzerland, 1938), and Konkrete Kunst (
Concrete Art, 1944).
Known somewhat confusingly by several different names -
such as, «non-figurative», «non-objective
art», «non-representational», or «
concrete art» - abstract
art blossomed in the 20th century, thanks to the pioneering efforts of artists like Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), Kasimir Malevich (1878 - 1935), Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931), Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) and Joan Miro (1893 - 1983).
Participants will have an opportunity to create their own photocopy - based
art works
such as
concrete poems and figurative abstractions from provided source material from the exhibition library.
This survey of about 200 works from the Teufel collection provides an overview of postwar
Concrete art, with a speciality in Eastern European, Italian and French artists
such as Zdenek Skora, Antonio Calderara and Aurélie Nemours.
While working in the lineage of 20th century abstraction and installation
such as Brazilian
Concrete and Neo-
Concrete art and Italian Arte Povera, Costa pursues an irreverent, and very current, path.
Other works include Workspace (2016), a wooden, scale model of an artist's studio (look for mini, dollhouse - like objects
such as tools and artworks) and Origin Unknown (2016), a
concrete sculpture which is made of hammer - like forms and which the gallery's Stella Reinhold - Rudas noted is influenced by African naive
art and the communist regime of the artist's childhood.
While their practices differed, all were united in their use of modest, «found» materials,
such as wood, lead, copper, steel and
concrete, which they deployed to challenge historic definitions of what constitutes an artwork, and in doing so raised profound questions about the relationship between life and
art.
For her latest show at Dundee Contemporary
Arts she recorded herself reading pornography and carved full stops in different fonts from polystyrene, as well as giving
concrete interpretations of words
such as «twerp», «spaz» and «tart».